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LAUREL OUTLOOK
Official Paper of Yellowstone County
LAUREL, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1950
VOLUME 43—NO. 26
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Heavy November Layoffs In Industry
Are Less In Extent Than Year Ago
Impact of the normal seasonal
decline in employment, particularly
on out-door projects, was felt at all
Montana labor markets during
early November, continuing
throughout the balance of the
month. Extent of the lay-offs was
less, numerically, than a year ago;
paradoxically, the weather condi
tions were difinitely more severe
this November than a year ago
reports the division of unemploy
ment compensation of Montana.
Affects Nearly All Outdoor
Activities
Force reductions occurred in all
forms of construction activity ex
cept inside furnishing work, which
is continuing with vigor in most
areas. There were complete layoffs
on many highway projects, a num
ber of logging outfits and saw
mills, and most railway mainten
extra gangs. Partial layoffs
affected employment on the two
government dams by about 50 per
cent; temporary layoffs are re
ported from many other outdoor
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EXTENTION AGENT
Bozeman, Dec. 20. — Eugene
Coombs, county agent at large for
the Montana extension service
last fall, has been appointed
extension agent for
county, effective Jan. 16, R. B.
Tootell, director of extension at
Montana State college, announced j
today. In the Richland county post
Coombs succeeds W. E. Gorkins
who has resigned to enter another
field of work. !
A graduate of Montana State,
college, Coombs was raised on an
irrigated farm near Laurel where
he gained experience in irrigation |
farming methods and livestock
management. Before coming to
Montana State college he was
prominent in 4-H club and Future
Farmer activities, having been the
of the state 4-H leadership
since
Richland
winner
the Thomas E. Wilson
state 4-H livestock award. He
served as first state vice president
of the Future Farmers of America.
In college he was president of
his sophomore class, president of
the College 4-H club, co-chairman
of High School week and home
coming committee, and an active
member of a number of campus
organizations.
Since becoming a member of the
extension staff last fall Coombs
has been working in Madison and
Jefferson counties, assisting Coun
ty Agent H. A. Cosgriffe.
activities. In line with normal sea
sonal experience the process of
releasing employees in affected ac
tivities will continue through De
cember and well in January.
Sugar Refining Season Ends Early
Early completing of beet harvest
enabled sugar refining plants to
end their seasonal runs at an ear
lier than normal date. Two or three
have already released seasonal
crews, the others will reach the
same stage this month. Farm hir
ing decreased almost vertically dur
ing November,- and at the same
lay-offs of farm hands added ma
terially to the available labor force
in all agricultural areas of the
state.
Marked Changes from October
Statistically, there were more
new applications for work in No
vember than in October, but fewer
than in November of 1949. The
same movement is noted in the
total count of applicants seeking
work at the end of the month.
Placement of applicants in jobs in ■
November was far behind the
placements m October, but was,
more a
November 1949 placements.
By type of industry these hires
went 840 to farm work, 770 to con
tract construction, 570 to wholesale
and retail trade, 375 to manufac
turing, 210 to service industries,
and smaller numbers to other
forms of activity.
Construction employment is
scheduled to continue through the
w inter on several security installa
t i ons by federal authorities in the
state, to a limited extent on two
government dams, on several pro
duction plans which will lead to
sizeable and steady payrolls when
completed, and on a larger than
Much Construction Continues
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Service Board Gets
519 Cans Of Food
For Christmas Boxes
The Food matinee last Satur
day afternoon at
theater proved to be a success
ful venture.
Children gave articles of food
as the price of admission. E. M.
Jackson donated the use of the
theater and supplied a program
of comedies for the children.
The 519 cans of food received
to be added to the Christ
mas boxes distributed by the
Community Service board.
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ROTARY CLUB HEARS
STORY OF CHRISTMAS
"The Christmas story is the
story of two kings, one old and
the other young." Working from
this point of departure, when ad
dressing the Laurel Rotary club at
its Thursday noon meeting, Rev.
C, G. Spellman developed an anal
ogy comparing the conflict between
Herod and Jesus to the conflict
between materialism and spiritual
ism.
Herod, used here to symbolize
the secular world, was born into
wealth, and was surrounded by
servants and soldiers who made
his every demand a command.
Jesus, born without fanfare, was
delivered of his mother, the wife
poor carpenter, as she lay in
One was overshadowed
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be mQre than gi or ifi e( j romance,
Herod standa for the material, the
a manger,
by the Roman Eagles, the other
by the Dove of Peace. These to
figures, " Spellman said, "symbol
age-old struggle. Victory
ize an
for one is defeat for the other."
"Christmas," he continued, "to
anything to the world, must
secular, and at any given moment
in history it seems that Herod and
his men have had the upper hand.
They rule by fear." He then re
ferred the late Adolph Hitler, a
modern Herod, and cited his ter
roristic rule, but also pointed out
the spiritual strength that has sur
vived the ruthless attempts to de
stroy it. Opposed to rule by ter
ror is found the faith of Chris
tendom. Spellman cited as an en
couraging indication of progress
in the escape from fear the fact
tbat the churches which a few
years ago taught that the faithful
should fear the Lord now teach
that one should love the Lord
Indicating the dangers that face
religion, he pointed out that even
Herod will profess religion in or-|
der to gain a point. "
would worship Jesus,
"Caesar will control God." Fooled
by this, the churches have too long
blessed war. They cannot teach
love and hate at the same time.
"It is time for the churches to
get out of the war business, he
When Herod
" he added,
the idea that a choice must be
made between two conflicting idea
ologists, and emphasized that the
choice will determine the future.
Heebners To Visit Minnesota
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Heebner and
son Jack plan to leave Friday for
Duluth, Minn., where they will
spend Christmas with their daugh
ter, Mrs. Dick Schuett and family.
They will also visit in Minneapolis.
CREATES WATER
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Council At First December
Meeting, Adopts Wiring Re
port For Pump House
After approving a request by the
Yellowstone bank for the release
of $2,600 collateral in bonds issued
by school district 7, the city coun-1
cil, meeting in regular session
Tuesday, passed a resolution, en
acted an ordinance, and heard re
ports from various city depart
ments. In attendance at the meet
ing, presided over by Mayor Peter
D. Thomson, were alderman Feuer
bacher, Freebury, McManus, Rodg
ers, McCormick, and Wold.
Resolution No. 733, a resolution
transferring money from the water
fund to the water depreciation
fund, was approved by the council.
An ordinance creating a special
water office building fund, ordi
nance No. 416, was presented and
read before council and was unani
mously approved by that group.
After hearing and approving the
reports of the clerk and the treas
urer the council granted a request
by the treasurer for permission to
leave the state for two weeks be
ginning Jan. 15.
A written report, prepared by
Alderman Freebury, regarding the
condition of wiring at the city
pump house was presented. The
council then authorized Freebury
to advise the Northern Pacific rail
way and the Farmers Union Cen
tral Exchange as to his recommen
dations for corrections in that wir
ing.
Judges To View
Yule Decorations
Friday Evening
The Laurel Garden club and the
Unity Garden club are co-sponsors
of a contest in out-door decorating
of homes for the C' dsl nas season.
A committee of judges from out
of town will view all homes Fri
day evening of this week. Prizes
of $6, $4 and $2 have been offered.
The amount of the prizes was in
creased when it was decided that
both clubs would cooperate in the
project.
Mrs. T. W. Evert is chairman of
the contest and will answer ques
tions concerning it. She will notify
the winners.
Paul Ronan Heads
Yellowstone County
4-H Club Council
Paul Ronan, leader of the Sunny
Valley Feeders and Farmers 4-H
club, was elected president of the
Yellowstone county 4-H club coun
cil at a meeting Monday afternoon
at the Roosevelt School building
in Billings.
Mrs. Leonard Smith, leader of
the Willing Workers 4-H club is
vice president and Mrs. Miles
Throop, co-leader of the Lively
Livestock club is secretary.
Park City Schools
To Present Concert
| p ar k City public schools will pre
sen t its Christmas concert at 8
■ p . m ., Dec. 21, according to an an
nouncement made today by J. W.
Burchak, band director. Participat
j i ng ; n the concert will be four
groups, the junior and senior
bands, the girls' glee club, and the
mixed chorus.
The program will consists of
various Christmas selections, and
will be concluded by several con
C ert numbers presented by the sen
ior band,
The music department of the
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Museum Succumbs At 61
Of Drain Hemorrhage
Max Big Man, Sr., prominent
member of the Crow Indian tribe,
who with his family spent two
summers in Laurel some years ago
while in charge of the Laurel Com
mercial club's tourist bureau and
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CHIEF BIG MAN
museum, died of a cerebral hem
orrhage Friday at the hospital in
Crow Agency, situated between
Hardin and the Custer Battlefield
National monument. He was 61
years of age at the time of his
death. He had been in failing
health about a year and had en
tered the hospital four days before
his death.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the Baptist
church in Crow Agency. The
church is well know in American
religious circles because of its long
continuous
Crows. Illustrated articles con
cerning it have appeared in vari
ous publications, including the
magazine of Rotary International.
Although Big Man lived most of
his life at Crow Agency, he was
often at old Fort Custer during the
years the fort was occupied by
troops. His father as a scout was
a member of the Seventh cavalry,
Gen. George A. Custer's command
at the time of the disasterous Cus
ter battle with outnumbering hos
tile Indians in June 1876. After
the battle the elder Big Man was
stationed at the fort.
He was born April 15, 1889, on
the Crow reservation and was made
an honorary chief of the tribe in
1931 by the late Chief Plenty
Coups. He was, as a result of his
appointment and hereditary rights,
a members of the tribal council and
other Indian and bodies.
During part of his life he travel
ed extensively, often to Washing
ton, D. C., on tribal matters and
also as a lecturer in other cities.
He met many prominent white
people while thus engaged, many
of whom esteemed him, for his
philosophic views. In 1933 he was
employed by Wrigley company,
Chicago, as a member of the cast
of a daily radio program, "Lone
Wolf Tribe.
At one Urne, he was
employed by the Chicago, hurling
ton and Quincy railroad.
As ® l*w enforcement officer
since 194o he had been chief of po
.lice at Crow Agency and was a
deputy sheriff of Big Horn county
in 1948 and '49.
He is survived by his widow;
four sons, Edgar, Max, Jr., Ben
jamin and Art, all of whom live at
Crow Agency, and by four daugh
ters, Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, Mrs. An
nie Howe, Mrs. Pearl Morrison and
Frances Falls all of
Crow Agency. •
Rosemary Sparlin
Gets Nurse's Cap
Bozeman, Dec. 20. — Rosemary
Sparlin of Laurel was among the
23 student nurses of the Deaconess
hospital division of the Montana
State college nursing school who
recently received student nurse
caps at a capping ceremony held
in Great Falls.
Bring Artillery To Bear For First Time To
Blast U. S. Troops Holding Waterfront Of
Dwindling Area — Barrage Protects
By Ernest Hoberecht,
United Press Staff Correspondent
Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 21.—
(UP)—Communist forces besieging
the shrinking Hungnam beachhead
in northeast Korea increased the
fury of their attacks and brought
up artillery for the first time Wed
nesday to blast U. S. Third division
troops holding the waterfront area.
But the Red attacks melted against
outpost defenses and the massed
fire of land and navy guns pro
tecting the tiny beachhead with a
continuously roaring barrage of
fire and steel.
Fearful of the barrage, the Reds
fired only four rounds from their
big guns into the beachhead in the
hours of darkness to avoid giving
away their positions. Mortar fire
against outpost positions also was
"There is no place to stand in
side the beachhead today where the
concussion of heavy artillery fire
is not felt," United Press Corre
spondent William Chapman re
ported. "A deadly curtain of high
velocity and howitzer fire bul
warked by self propelled guns and
90 and 75 millimeter tank guns
are rimming the American lines
with flying steel fragments."
Chapman reported the massed ar
MillionMen
For Europe
Protection
By R. H. Shackford,
United Press Staff Correspondent
Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 20.—
(UP)— U. S. Secretary of State
Dean Acheson said today that the
Atlantic Pact conference decision
to build a Western army of nearly
1,000,000 men was a "peace plan
to save Europe from communism."
Acheson made the comment before
taking off in President Truman's
personal plane, Independence, for
Washington. His departure had
been delayed from last night be
cause of fog. The secretary of state
left aboard the Independence at
3:53 a. m. (M.S.T.).
Representatives of the 12 mem
ber nations gave the allied high
commissioners in Germany the
green light to make a deal with
the west German government to
get German contingents in the new
Atlantic pact army at almost any
cost. Germany will be asked to
contribute up to one-fifth of the
new intenrational army which will
be under the supreme command of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
KIWANIS SPEAKER SAIS
Wesley A. Freeberg, president
elect of the Laurel Kiwanis club,
announced at the regular meeting
Wednesday evening of last week
committee
the appointment of
chairmen for the fiscal year begin
ning Jan. I. An organization meet
called for the following
; evening, Thursday, at the Laurel
j ra( jj n ^. p os t.
, Noti regroupings of old com
i mitteeSj appearance of entirety new
oneg and the dropping of others,
t h e president-elect named 13 and
their chairmen:
Boys and Girls' Work—Archie
Perigo.
High School Key Club—Dr. Har
ry H. McLane.
Underprivileged Children—Louis
J. Blackwell,
Agriculture and Conservation—
Dr. R. J. Rosselot.
Public and Business Affairs—
Raymond F. Stevens.
Support of Churches—Daniel E.
Attendance and Membership—
J. Willard Baldwin.
Advertising, Achievement Re
ports, and Advisory—H. Lee Ham
lett.
Sharp.
Inter-club Relations—Eugene V.
Mills.
Education and Fellowship—Dr.
W. A. McCormick.
(Continued on Page Ten)
tillery blasted one suspected enemy
concentration with 1,100 rounds
Tuesday night and was credited
with breaking up an attack by an
estimated two battalions of Reds.
U. S. Tenth corps intelligence
officers said the mounting Red at
tacks still were probing American
lines in search of a weak spot for
a major assault. Communist troops
still are pouring down from the
north and concentrating around the
beachhead, the officers said. Planes
from six carriers massed offshore
blasted at least four such enemy
troop columns closing in on Hung
nam.
Carrier based planes alone
close to 1,300 enemy troops in the
past 24 hours.
Dusiness Asked To Not Raise
Prices, Cancel Some Gains
—Wages Next On List
By Robert F. Loftus,
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Dec. 20.—(UP) —
The government put all business
men on their honor today not to
raise prices and to cancel some
increases made since the Korean
war began.
The economic stabilization agen
cy "ESA
pricing standards, generally geared
to the pre-Korean profits and Dec.
1 prices, that will serve as a volun
tary price ceilings for big and lit
tle business. They cover practically
everything from the comer grocery
store to the giant steel industry.
Wages are next, an ESA spokes
man said. A corresponding plan for
voluntary stabilization of every
one's pay check is in preparation
and will be disclosed in the very
near future.
Two senate Republicans—John
announced a set of
W. Bricker, Ohio, and Homer E.
Capeheart, Ind., said the adminis
tration was ignoring the intent of
congress by imposing price con
trols without "simultaneous wage
controls."
'Little Orphan Annie'
Airlift Takes 1,000
Kids Out Of Korea
By Peter Kalischer,
United Press Staff Correspondent
Seoul, Korea, Dec. 20.—(UP)—
More than 1,000 sick shivering
Korean children who lost their fami
' lies in the war were airlifted from
communist threatened Seoul today
in an "Operation Little Orphan
Annie."
months to 13 years old. Evacuated
from an American sponsored or
Phanage as the Reds came closer,
The orphans ranged from six
they had been waiting three days
^ Inchon for a South Korean navy
ship which was to have taken them
to an island off the coast. The
ship did not arrive,
Then the U. S. air force stepped
in. Through Chaplain R. L. Blais
dell, of Hayfield, Minn., the airlift,
unprecedent in this war, was
ganized in 24 hours.
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Five Laurel People
Will Serve On Jury
service at a trial term of district
court beginning Jan. 2, Clerk of
Out of 70 Yellowstone county
residents called to report for jury
District Court Katie Davies re
ported five are from Laurel. They
are Harold Bernhardt, Ervin D.
Chester, Clarence Frickey, J. R.
Gallagher and Forest H. Gomon.
A calendar of cases to be tried
at the jury term is now being com
pleted. Criminal cases are being
docketed for January 2 and civil
cases will be heard beginning Jan
uary 8. Judges are Guy C. Derry
and Ben Harwood.